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MARE-By M. L.. Mccall, three and a half
INl miles from to IN, on Pigeon Rcostroad,
one mare. The owner can prove property,
PITY charges aud take her aaay.
now AND CALF-The owner can get by
~ applying to Mrs. A. l.. Allen or G. l..
Thema', Bailey avenue, proving property
and paying charges
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-03-18

Henry Ward Beecher has received
more money for lectures than any Other
man on the platform record. He has
been lecturing for forty years, his fees
having increased from $50 to S2C0,
and the aggregate amount being estimated
at $3.50, 000 Most of this money, how
ever, has been lost. Greeley paid 'or
Chappaqua by his lectures. Bayard Tay-
lor cleared in the same manner S., 500 III
one season. Tilton used to deliver fifty
lectures in a season at $75 to 800. Josh
Billings had all the engagements he
wanted at 800, and left an estate of
$50, 900, all made after he had passed 10.
Chaplin made 100000 by his lectures and
Emerson got rich in the same manner.
Anna Dickinson was at one time worth
SIS, 200, all made by lectures, but it vas
lost through mismanagement. Mark
Twain has made between $25, 1000 and
$4,000 by his lectures.-New York
Mail and Express.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-03-18

Pending the discussion of the desira-
bility of adding dynamite to red hot
stoves and oil lamps as remedy against
the sufferings and tortures of being first
smashed and then slowly roasted in a
burning car, it might be worth while to
inquire why it is that the effete nations
of the old world never are under the
necessity of discussing means of speedy
death as relief from the torture of rail
way casualties. Is it not somewhat sin
gular that among the played out denizens
of Europe bridges don't drop when trains
cross them; switches are not misplaced
when lightning express is due; the Ias-
senger coaches never tumble down high
entertainments and then catch fire and
roast their mutilated contents? How 10
they do things over there? 1t is trle
that these people are etfete, and worn
out, and passe, while it appears that
there is point or two where they have
the advantage of us.-Chicago Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-03-18

her, the picture danced before her.
"Sweethearty' Sweetheart And to
know it now, now in the hour when she
had risked her life to save him! She
staggered to the bed and fell across it,
face downwards, scorching tears gather
ing slowly in her wsle open. unseeing
eyes. She did not hear the door open,
nor the quick footsteps that sounded in
the room.
"Kum out yer!' cried a voice,
roughly. 81 amt goin ter git TIL bet
ter o. we unbeknownst. I'm willin' ter
fight we far an squar, an let tn best
man win"
The words reached her, but she did not
grasp their meaning. The long strain had
brought its inevitable reaction, and she
had succumbed at last.
"Git up, thar, l say! No playin'
asleep II fool me! Ye're a coward ter
try it! Show up, like man, afore |
count five, or I'll shoot ye fur tn dog ye
| be! wo!-three! -four!-five!'
A sudden familiar sound recalled Sal
Enderby to a dim sort of consciousness.
1t was sound that she had learned to
know well during her life in that lawless
region-thc click of a revolver, cooked
for action. Some faint, natural instinct
of self preservation impcls her to open her
| lips, but no word issues from them.
/ Twice she essayed to speak, and both
times vainly. Then she shut her lips
again. resignedly. Sweetheart! Sweet
heart. That cruel word was the only
one she had not forgotten. She was dead
to fear, to shame, to everything but the
sore agony in her heart
There was a flash, a sudden, sharp re-
port, a keen, singing sensation in her
left side, piercing through to the beauti-
full white breastl The next moment the
light of lantern flashed full in her face,
and. lying back. faint unto death. with
something warm and dark trickline
through her gown and staining the white
Counterpart. she saw the face of Red
Ranch Bill, drawn, ghastly, horror.
stricken. above her,
"Sal!' he cried. ooh, my God my
God. Sal!'
The despair in his voice recalled hel
from the lethargy into which she was fast
sinking
at S all right, Bill-ye didn't mean it, >
she said, softly. 1T don 't-hurt half e1
much-ez eft hid be 'n-him!'
Her eyes closed, her lips paled. Bill
sank on his knees, burying his face il
her frosty, draggled skirt Suddenly
with last effort, she raised herself in the
bed and held out the velvet framed pict
ure.
keep it'll Darcy Breene-send'
fur it, she gasped. Don't take on
Bill. I'm glad - ter die fur his -
sake!"
Then her lips parted, her eyes glazed
her head fell forward, and the tragedy OF
Ranch Village was played to its end
Minnie Gitpjore in Frank Leslie's.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-03-18
ThfWprk of the Reporter.

A very large proportion of the work of
collecting and preparing news for daily
paper can not, from the nature of things,
be performed by women. About half the
persons employed on a city daily paper
are reporters. They are likely to be sent
anywhere and everywhere by the city
editor at any hour of the day or night.
They are obliged to visit places where the
foot of a modest woman should never
tread. They are forced to famiiarize
themselves with crime and criminals.
They must attend horse races, sparring
matches, prize fights, Hanging bees
political conventions and other disrepu-
table gatherings. They must follow en-
gines to fires. run after the police patrol
wagon. mingle with mobs, witness dog
fights and 'chicken contentious go in
disguise into secret meetings of Anarch-
lists and be in attendance at police court
trials and coroner S inquests. Till women
abandon their womanhood they can not
become efficient newspaper reporters. 49,.
Chicago Times.
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A Walk Before breakfast.

1t is curious how ideas change with he
times. Not SO many years ago it vas
considered the most healthful thing in he
world to take a walk before breakfast
1T is not only absurd, but dangerous, "
said well known physician, speaking on
this subject few days ago. THE eirly
morning air is malarial and will case
catarrh and lung troubles If you AN
avoid it never leave your house until the
sun has warmed the atmosphere. Never
mind about seeing the sun rise; it will Use
without your assistance-take care of
your health and let the sun take care of
itself - Philadelphia Call.
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family-partook more of the fathers or the
mothers nature The family was thoroughly
American. In 1G3S a yeoman named Andrew
Ward and a widow, Hannah Beecher, came
to New Haven in the same vessel from Eng
land; from the latter Roxana Foote, from the
former Lyman Beecher, descended, and these
two united in marriage Sept. 10, 1893, locat-
ing first at East Hampton, L. l., and after
ward crossing to Litchfield, Conn. Henry
Ward was their eighth child
The family was not only thoroughly Ameri-
can, but also thoroughly administrations
oughly New England in blood, faith and
manners. 1t was family of talent, too If
Henry Ward lad died in infancy, the name
of Beecher would still have been enrolled for
ever in American history; if he had been a
lawyer or a doctor, his father would have
held a still higher rank as the great
preacher than he now does as DIR. Lyman
Beecher. Noted as he was in his time, he is
now known to most young Americans chiefly
as the father of the great Brooklyn divine
And eminent as other members of the family
are in their separate walks, their emnence is
made comparative obscurity and they are
often referred to merely as the brothers or
sisters of Henry Ward To this general state
ment there is one brilliant exception-the
name of Harriet Beecher Stowe will shine
among the great ones of earth and she will
be honored and loved as long as the English
language is read and human hearts beat in
sympathy with the oppressed For it was
! her pen that reused the heart and conscience
I of the common people against slavery.
The children of Dr. Beecher were reared in
a rather strict, old fashioned way. Festivals
for children, fancy toys and story books were
! unknown in the Connecticut of that day hut
they had "A severe moral training, and with it
much freedom in the open air, in the woods
and the fields. OF this experience Mr.. Beecher
said: 81 think | was well brought up, be-
cause | was let alone. Except here and there,
l hardly cumr under the parental hand; but
l knew where the sweethag was where the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-03-18


BEECHERs BIRTHPLACE, LlTCHFIELD, CONN.
hickory trees were, where the chestnut and
the sassafras and the squirrels were-so | had
a world of things to do The good effects of
this close familiarity with nature appear in
all of Mr. Beecher's productions. When Henry
was but three years old his mother died, and
little more than year after his father mar
ried again. The new mother did all moth
er's part to the children, and Henry Ward
always spoke of her with the utmost rever-
ence: but he confesses that she was woman
to be venerated rather than warmly and ten
derby loved, and that her religion was of a
strangely severe and solemn kind. He con
fessed that he could not open his heart to
her, and often felt his emotions chilled The
family discipline was somewhat less severe
than was usual at that day in New England
but there was strictnesS enough. Especially
were the children trained to habits of truth
fulness; duplcity in any form was the one
objectionable offense in true New England
household.
1t was while he was attending a mathe-
NAUTICAL school, which his father had per-
suaded him would be necessary if he went
to sea, as he at one time wished to do, that
Henry Ward Beecher professed religion and
united with his fathers church in Boston.
All his thoughts now turned toward the min
istry, and as soon as he could prepare there
for he entered Amherst college
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-03-18
ortied the terrible struggles his own mind

orded the terrible struggles his own mind
went through in revising and finally reject
ing some of the harsh features of the old
creed After his graduation In 1884 he
followed his fathers family 10 Cincinnati,
where Dir. Beecher had become a professor in
Lane seminary. He entered at once upon
the study of theology in that institution, but
as the divergence of views between him and
his father became more marked, he fell into
another state of deep depression His older
brother had just withdrawn from the min
istry OH the ground of unbelief in the stan
dards set up, and for a season Henry Ward
suffered great darkness and confusion of
mind From this he emerged with an en-
thusiastic conviction of the truth of the more
liberal views he had previously held only
tentatively.
The congregation at Lawrenceburg, Ind, of
which he was first made pastor, was poor; the
lower Part of the town was subject to over
flows, and there was sickness and want of
energy. But Mr.. Beecher acted as his own
sexton, and by enthusiastic devotion to duty
was building up a church when he received a
call to indianapolis. In that city, he says, he
dropped the study of theology and began the
study of mankind; the effect on his preach
| ing was so marked as to attract wide
attention. He became a magnetic and
popular preacher He had married just
before leaving Cincinnati, and in indianapolis
he and his wife led very active lives for a
little over seven years, when he received his
call and made his last change to- the Plymouth
| Congregational church of Brooklyn, with
which his name and fame have been identified
| for nearly forty years On Sunday. Oct 10,
1S47, he preached his first sermon in Brooklyn
| Al - IA nAl a. l...t =.
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mate. Take any view we can of 1t, some
people have been cruelty wronged; place c
guilt where we may, many people have per
petrated the yilest treachery and some
the most unblushing perjury. In fact, the
saddening conclusions which logically follow
any verdict are so depressing that many good
men shrink from them and refuse to make up
their minds at all But in spite of this blot
Henry Ward Beecher will live i'll American
history as one of the really great men of his
age. We do well to honor him as patriot,
orator and friend of the oppressed, ignoring
any personal weakness; his monument is in
the hearts of millions, and his career will
long remain as bright chapter in the history
of Brooklyn.
The steadfast devotion of Mrs. Beecher to
her husband and family is well known. She
was teacher before marriage, and was noted
for conscientious devotion to duty. 1t is not
too much to say that the funeral of the dead
pastor was unique In accordance with his
wish, flowers were everywhere-the very pail
was covered with flowers, and no near friend
wore mourning. There was private service
at the house Thursday, and on Friday pub
lie service at Plymouth church, where the
floral decorations were the most profuse. The
body lay in state part of Thursday, all of
Friday and part of Saturday. Nearly 100000
people viewed it.
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.--Estate of
y Miss -. d. Cook.

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Hon. Probate court for the District OF Ad-
Olson, commissioners to receive, examine and
adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate of Dotha &. Cook, late OF
Bridport, in said district, deceased, and all
claims exhibited in offset thereto, hereby give
notice that we VIII meet tor the purposes
aforesaid, at the residence OF +. NJ. Wheeler,
on the Goth day of March and 25th day of June
next, from o'c ock, p. m, until O'Clock, p.
m, each of said days and that six months
from the 18TH day OF February A. ID. 1887, is
the time limited by said court tor said credit
ors to present their claims to us tor eXamina-
ton and allowance.
Dated nj Bridport, this 2d day OF March. A.
ID. 1881 -
ID. II. BENNETT, CONS
0 j. X. RICE,
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THE GREAT PREACHER.
LIFE AND DEATH OF REV. HENRY
WARD BEECHER.

His Early ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of His
Liberal Views on Religious Matters.
The Brooklyn Scandal-General Review
of a Most Eventful Career.
Henry Ward Beecher, whose death and
funeral services have lately drawn the atten-
ton of the country, inherited from his parents,
Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher. the two
greatest blessings of an earthly nature-a
perfectly sound body and cheerful dispo-
sition. 1t was remarked from the start
that in body, mind and disposition he
was almost perfect blending Of both
parents. while his nine brothers and
sisters-for it was truly patriarchal
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-03-18

British people to just view of the American
Civil War" Mr. Beecher himself always
looked upon this as the most try
ing experience of his life, though he
had been very active and prominent in the
anti-slavery agitation preceding the war, and
had fought for freedom of speech in the dark
est hours OF one of the gatherings he adj
dressed in England he said "Ihe uproar
would come on and drown my voice-then |
would wait and get in five minutes or so.
The reporters would get that down Occa-
sionally | would see things that amused me
and laugh outright; the crowd would stop to
see what | was laughing at and would sail
in with a sentence or two"
Mr.. Beecher returned home to he welcomed
as no returning American had ever been, and
to remain for nine years the great representa-
tive American, the honored patriot, the in
fluential politician and the one pulpit orator
whose life was an almost constant ovation.
Then came the great cloud upon his fame,
which had lifted, indeed, but was not entirely
cleared away even at his death In
this space it can only be touched
upon-a large volume would he needed
to give the details of the Great
Brooklyn Scandal" of 1S72-15. 1t was EN-
phatcaly Brooklyn scandal, not exclu-
sively Beecher scandal; for its destructive
fury made havoc in many circles, sundered
lifetime friendships, destroyed the peace of
families, hankrupted business men, poisoned
schools and churches and wrought moral
desolaiion which even now we cannot esti
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FOR SALE-One yoke of fat oxen, eight
cows, and young cattle. Also large guam
tity OF HAY.
l.. =. STEARNS.
Lincoln, Vt, Nov. Is, lsS6. Att
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COMMISSIONERS NOTICE-Estate of
u Inmes w. knnDD.
,TATE OF VERMONT,
Ai-f..ist nf II sam = :

The Probate Court for the District OF Addi-
son:
To all persons interested in the estate of
William +. \oycs, late OF salisbury in said
District deceased. GREETING:
BY the authority of the State OF Vermont,
YOU are hereby notified to appear before the
said Probate Court, at the Probate Office in
Middlebury, in said District, ON the 2lst day
of March, \. ID. ISL at 10 O'Clock Il. m, to
show cause, il any you have, why the account
of George W. Noyes, administrator OF the es-
tate of said deceased, should not he allowed,
and also why the residue of said estate should
not be distributed to the parties entitled
thereto.
Dated at Middlebury, in said District, this
26th day of February, \. D., ISL.
o LYMAN f.. KNAPP, Judge.
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NOTICE.-Estate OF
Y Daniel BabcOck,

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Hon. Probate Court tor the District OF Adj
Olson, Commissioners, to receive, examine
and adjust all claims and demands of all per
sons against the estate of Daniel Babcock, late
of Granville, in said District, deceased, and
all claims exhibited in offset thereto, here
by give notice that will meet tor the pur-
poses aforesaid at the dwelling house OF Geo.
v Wilson in Hancock, on the 26th day OF March
and 81 day of September next, from O'Clock,
p. IN. until O'Clock, p. m, each of said days,
and that six months from the 2lst day of Feb
ruary, A. ID. 1887, is the time limited by said
Court for said creditors TO present their claims
to us tor examination and allowance.
Dated at Hancock, this 22d day OF February,
A. ID. 1881
GEO. V. WILSON, Co
a. ID. MARTIN, N'o'
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BRECHER's FIRST CHURCH, BATAVIA, o.
His classmates were not impressed with his
scholarship, but in the debating club he soon
took high rank. He also became an enthusi-
asst on the subject of phrenology, and was
very early distinguished as an ardent speaker
against slavery. Here, too his religious Jews
underwent a peculiar change. Dr. Lyman
Beecher was ,hen the great orthodox divine
Of New England, and Henry Ward has rec
Telegram-herald., 1887-08-06
BOODLERS CONVICTED.
AL FOUND GUILTY As CHARGED
The Jary oat About SIR HSurs-ssyen Of
the Dsfssd&ass Gst Two Years in
tue feaitsst,.fy aud the
Others - 900 tine.

CEIcsee A. 5.--Shortly after 3 O'Clock
this afternoon Judge Jameson finished his
instructions u The jury Ia the big Doodle
case. and they retired 70 consider the ver-
dict. The court took q recess until c 81
bur a. tat time. when Judge Jameson re-
Turned 10 the beach. the jary vas 40, ready
e. report The Jade, lawyers. defendants
and crowd VI people hlling the
court room waited patiently until a
ieS minutes before . o'clock. when the
jury returned snd announced that all the
defendants had been found guilty As charged
Great excitement was caused IN court oy
the announcement though the verdict had
been expected by even the most sanguine Of
The Dcodiers and their friends. The jury
we're polled and then Il vas announced they
bad awarded penalties 10 the defendants -
follows. Leyden, Van Pelt Wren. Wasser-
nlan. Ochs. NcCiaugbrey and Narneil. two
years each ia the penitentiary Cells. Oliver
CasselmAnn aud Mccarthy. 81 900 hne each
bat no imprisonment.
Notice OF a motion for a new trial was
given and the court adjourned. The hood
iers were taken in charge by Sheriff Matson
and conveyed 10 the County Jail.
Telegram-herald., 1887-08-06

fks ppers feninsGkA a. :. &snr1-ssN
tsnosd ~ the tests House
a CorrsetfoG.

The summer session II tie United States
Coan fof the Upper Peninsula. held 81
Marquette. adjourned Thursday al noon.
ana tie judges and other officials hass re
turned. Judge sage went directly 70 his
b0ae in Cincinnati. and Judge seseFens
has Joined his f4ually ell ofiawa beach.
Marsha NsIers brought down . prisoner
named Allies SbSnnun. sentenced - tht
iunis BOuse II Correction Tor one year, Tor
Sssistipg soldier % escape from the garTi-
son III SAUL cle. Mary The prisoner re-
manned ia al here over night. and vii bs
tskeg 10 lOuia today. tie j. the nrsi Fed
erai prisoner ever sentenced 30 The Iona
prison II appears that ii has been decided
that nlted states prisoners cannot os con
fned Ia The D=trolt House OF Correction.
and hereafter those convicted Al the lnliea
States Court. for the Michigan District, vii
be sentenced 20 ionla.
shannon kept q saloon a. the 800.
where be has . family. he IS 10 serve enc
year a prison. and pay tine Of 500. and
in case the fne is not paid when bis term
expires, ne is - be returned 10 Marquette
and confined ia JsIl until tie Lac is paid.